taraharris

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by taraharris 2mo ago
The national debt stands at $39.5 trillion. Interest payments on that debt exceed war department spending. Major recessions trigger massive stimulus payments, which would balloon that debt further, which puts the entire nation into a doom l
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by taraharris 3mo ago
We are clearly living through a period of national autophagy. What's happening all around us is causing a great deal of confusion, so I thought it might help to look at this from an economic perspective. The federal bureaucracy was lar
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by taraharris 4mo ago
I didn't click the link. (My first guess is this was inspired by a Benny Hill joke.)
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by taraharris 4mo ago
I think it's a good thing to not bake IEEE 754 too deeply into RISC-V. I really want to see hardware built around posits. This is not because they're necessarily superior to floats (they aren't in all use cases), but just bec
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by taraharris 5mo ago
I have a home in Seattle, so I get to see intersections and signs that are so confusing that I can't understand what I'm supposed to do when I encounter them. On residential streets around my house, people put up all these "2
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by taraharris 5mo ago
The claim is that compilers were f(x) -> y, and LLMs are f(x) -> P(y | z1 | z2 | ... z3). But how were various combinations of popular programming languages, operating systems and hardware platforms not effectively f(x) -> P(y | z1
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by taraharris 5mo ago
No. Just grow up, please.
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by taraharris 5mo ago
It's telling that there isn't a single mention of surgery in the study or the interview. Facial feminization surgery (FFS) exists but is extremely rare in Finland. After puberty, hormones alone can't change bone and cartilage
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by taraharris 5mo ago
When you're an adult and you can't afford surgery with skilled surgeons, you get shunned by the less accepting parts of society, which leads directly to increased morbidity. When you suppress treatment before adulthood -> highe
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by taraharris 5mo ago
The point is to protect Apple's control over its APIs and business model. I'd be shocked if they're not busy figuring out how to use LLMs to shore up app review right now. The war on general-purpose computing isn't good
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by taraharris 6mo ago
Elon would sell a lot more cars if he'd make peace with Vivian his fear keeps him holding in tears I guess I'll just buy a Rivian
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by taraharris 6mo ago
As long as it's not coupled with calls to tax and regulate those who do get in early and reap benefits from doing so, this is good and healthy. (I'm not the earliest adopter of crypto and AI by any means. I only rode up crypto a c
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by taraharris 6mo ago
This is so draconian it's worth leaving the United States to avoid this. The video is entirely correct: the true target is to help corporations maintain their monopolies on production. I'm disgusted with the Democrats that are pus
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by taraharris 8mo ago
A few weeks ago I got into our car. Without touching any controls other than the screen, it backed out of our garage and driveway, drove me to the grocery store, found a parking spot and parked. On the way back, it did the same thing withou
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by taraharris 1y ago
My first encounter with MBTI was at work, eight years ago. I resisted categorization because I dismissed it as being too geometric (like the four elements, or the four humors), and I tried to skew my results so that I'd be the type (EN
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by taraharris 1y ago
Talk to the people that helped you! Don't assume they don't need help from you now, because a lot of people put up a brave front
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by taraharris 1y ago
I didn't know it was gonna be the pandemic that did it. I was getting ready to get in because I saw the tiny yield curve inversion in like August or September of 2019 and was preparing to make up for lost decades of not investing at al
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by taraharris 1y ago
I got out of your situation by getting interested in investing in 2020. I made smart bets in march that year and had 5X the money when I dumped all my tsla stock teo years ago I suggest getting a job that you like and is low stress. I spend
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by taraharris 1y ago
I refused to buy the first one because it didn't have a round face. and since then I've decided that I don't want anything at all from Apple in my life, even if they one day do manage to make it pretty and round. everything t
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by taraharris 2y ago
NATO and the UN are both American institutions, and they ultimately serve American interests above all else. No matter what the future holds for these particular organizations, we should all hope for better and more neutral ones that actual
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by taraharris 2y ago
I'm saddened to see this is the thing that's being resisted, rather than the Trump administration's desire to throw me in prison for being a trans woman
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by taraharris 2y ago
I spent a very long time giving SolveSpace a native Haiku UI. I'm going to keep doing this kind of thing because there's nothing I personally dislike more than apps that don't use the platform's native UI. I don't c
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by taraharris 2y ago
I'd go for ARM anyway. I don't need to run binaries from the 90s
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by taraharris 2y ago
Why not quit school?
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by taraharris 2y ago
I doubt this very much. Sky-high interest rates make large purchases such as cars incredibly expensive.
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SETI Europe has found ET signals, including images [video](youtube.com)
3 points by taraharris 2y ago|1 comments
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by taraharris 3y ago
I remember reading about this case a few years ago (so I don't have a link). The article said the CSAM was the result of many of the employees in the CIA pranking each other. I am inclined to see this as a selective prosecution that be
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by taraharris 3y ago
There's no need to "destroy" the entire foreign policy establishment. We just need to force them to operate without the secrecy and privileges they presently enjoy and exploit so they can be subject to the democratic process.
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by taraharris 3y ago
What we need is to minimize or eliminate the adversarial relationships between nations globally. The only winners of the present status quo are the elites in every nation.
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by taraharris 3y ago
Missile defense is a misnomer. The distinction between a defensive and offensive capability is meaningless in the context of arms races and mutually assured destruction. As we pour billions into shooting down ICBMs, China will pour billions

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